Joint



J. W. LESLIE Y. April 7, 1925.

JOINT Filed 0013. 25, 1920 By this construction the conjoint interlocking deformations involved in the joint are formed in Yone thickness of a box strap and the reinforcing girth, instead of in two 'thicknesses of'box strap and the girth, as

is the case in the prior art construction, with the reduction'tin the edo-rt necessary to manipulate hand tools and the corresponding increase in the range of thickness of the binder employed, previously referred to.

The joint is particularly useful in connection with baling or the like, wherein the package to be supplied with a binder is compressed when the binder is applied. In such use the connecting element shown in Fig. l can be applied upon one end of a tie or binder, as for instance the end 9, this assembly and the joint 1l being made prior to the application of the binder. rIhereafter the binder can be applied about the package under compression, the end 10 threaded through the extension 1 protruding through the aperture 5, the binder drawn taut, and the joint 12 formed, after which so much of the binder as protrudes through the aperture 5- may be cut ofi' as close as desired.

Having described my invention, I claim:

l. A joint in tension resisting metallic binders for boxes, packages or the like, comprisino' a girth having a channel member arranged to receive a binder end, and an associated channel member arranged to receive an oppositely extending binder end, the entrance ends of said channel members being located at the ends of the girth and the exit ends thereof being located intermediate the ends of the girth, said latter ends being offset to guide the binder ends as they are fed into overlapping position with respect to each other so as to prevent interference between the two ends.

2. A joint for metallic tension resisting binders for boxes or packages, comprising in combination a pair of oppositely extended binder ends, and a connecting member for said ends, said connecting member being provided with a pair of sleeve-like members arranged in different planes and each adapted to receive only a single thickness of binder end, each of said sleeve-like members and its single binder end having deformations impressedtherein edgewise of the sleeve-like member and binder end.

3. A connecting element for forming a joint in box strap ends or the like comprising a pair of oppositely extending members, each adapted to be secured individually to a box strap end, and to guide the same as itis fed longitudinally therein, and means in the connecting element, for deflecting said binder ends relatively to permit the same to clear each other as they are fed into overlapping position.

4c. A joint for fiat metallic tensional box strapping, comprising in combination a pair of oppositelyV extending box strap ends, a connecting member separately secured to eaclithereof by a tension resisting joint, said connecting member comprising strap end guideways located in different parallel planes, and being provided with a slot at the end of one of said guideways.

5. A tension resisting joint comprising a pair of oppositely' directed box strap ends, a unitary'connecting member therefor, said connecting member comprising a central portion and a pair of extensions each adapted to enclose one of the strap ends, each of said extensions being secured to the strap end embraced thereby by conjoint interlocking deformations formed in the extension and the strap end embraced thereby, said central portion being provided with a transversely extending slot arranged substantially in alignment with one of said extensions.

6. A tension resisting joint for box strapping comprising a, pair of oppositely directed box strap ends and a connecting member, said connecting member comprising a portion adapted to be secured to each box strap end separately, and a central enlargement having an aperture therein adapted to permit protrusion of a box strap end.

7. A tension resisting joint for box strapping comprising a pair of oppositely directed box strap ends and a connecting member, said connecting member comprising oppositely extending portions, each of which is adapted to embrace one of the box strap ends, said connecting member comprising a central enlargement having an aperture therein.

8. A tension resisting joint for box strapping comprising a pair of oppositelyr directed box strap ends and a connecting member, said connecting member comprising a pair of oppositely extending sleeves and an enlarged central portion, provided with a transversely extending slot adapted to permit the passage therethrough of one of said strap ends.

9. As an article ofmanufacture, a connecting member for box strap ends comprising a pair of oppositely directed extensions adapted to form enclosing sleeves for box strap ends, a central enlargement provided with an aperture, adapted to permit the passage therethrough of one of the strap ends.

10. As an article of manufacture, a connecting member for box strap ends comprising a pair of oppositely directed extensions adapted to form enclosing sleeves for box strap ends, a central enlargement provided with an aperture, the sides of said aperture being odset so as to permit box strap ends being fed in opposite directions along extensions to pass each other andr one thereof to protrude through the aperture.

ll. As an article of manufacture, a connecting device for box strap ends, comprising a pair of oppositely extended portions adapted to be secured upon box strap ends, and a central enlargement having an aperture therein, one side of said aperture being deflected relatively downwardly, the other relatively upwardly.

2. As an article of manufacture, a con necting device for box strap ends, comprising a pair of oppositely extended portions adapted to be secured upon box strap ends,

.and a central enlargement having an aperture therein, the port-ion of the device including one side of the aperture and extending therefrom to the adjacent end of the device being raised above the level of the remainder thereof.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 23rd day of September, A. D., 1920.

JOHN l/V. LESLIE. 

